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Trump had phone call with OpenAI’s Sam Altman last week about AI infrastructure
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Trump had phone call with OpenAI’s Sam Altman last week about AI infrastructure

US President Trump gestures as CEO of Open AI Sam Altman speaks in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on January 21, 2025, in Washington, DC.  Jim Watson | Afp | Getty Images Prior to officially becoming president, Donald Trump held a lengthy conversation with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Friday to discuss the […]

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Musk undercuts Trump’s Stargate AI investment announcement
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Musk undercuts Trump’s Stargate AI investment announcement

The logo of OpenAI is shown on a mobile phone in front of a computer screen displaying the photographs of Sam Altman, left, and Elon Musk, March 14, 2024. Muhammed Selim Korkutata | Anadolu | Getty Images Elon Musk claimed overnight Tuesday that tech giants OpenAI, Oracle and Softbank don’t have enough money to fulfill […]

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Meta backs Databricks as the data analytics startup inches toward IPO
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Meta backs Databricks as the data analytics startup inches toward IPO

Databricks co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi. Databricks Data analytics software startup Databricks said Wednesday that Meta has signed on as an investor. As the company that trains the popular Llama open-source large language models, or LLMs, that Databricks builds on, Meta plays an important role in the artificial intelligence. Databricks works closely with Meta’s Llama […]

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AI is the hot topic at Davos this year — here’s what the top CEOs are saying
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AI is the hot topic at Davos this year — here’s what the top CEOs are saying

Artificial intelligence is the topic du jour at this year’s World Economic Forum Annual Meeting — a major gathering of political and corporate leaders — in Davos, Switzerland. Fabrice Coffrini | AFP / Getty Images Of all the corporate buzzwords, artificial intelligence is by far the one that’s been on every major corporate leader’s lips […]

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UK replaces competition watchdog’s chair with ex-Amazon boss after anti-growth criticism
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UK replaces competition watchdog’s chair with ex-Amazon boss after anti-growth criticism

Doug Gurr, Amazon’s former U.K. head, has been appointed chair of the Competition and Markets Authority. David M. Benett | Getty Images for Amazon LONDON — The British competition regulator tapped a top former Amazon executive as its new chair after facing accusations from Prime Minister Keir Starmer of stifling growth. The Competition and Markets […]

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Microsoft loses status as OpenAI’s exclusive cloud provider
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Microsoft loses status as OpenAI’s exclusive cloud provider

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House while SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, Oracle CTO Larry Ellison, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman look on on January 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump is expected to announce investment in artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images News | Getty […]

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Sam Altman posts letter from senators concerned about OpenAI efforts to ‘cozy up’ to Trump
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Sam Altman posts letter from senators concerned about OpenAI efforts to ‘cozy up’ to Trump

Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, during a fireside chat organized by Softbank Ventures Asia in Seoul, South Korea, on Friday, June 9, 2023.  SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. Senators on Friday expressed concern to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman that he’s attempting to “cozy up to the incoming Trump administration” with […]

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Brooklyn trio raises  million for startup that wants to help open-source developers get paid
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Brooklyn trio raises $10 million for startup that wants to help open-source developers get paid

Sam Ragsdale, Ryan Sproule, and Mason Hall have raised $10 million in a seed funding round co-led by Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto fund and Blockchain Capital. Sam Ragsdale Inside the Domino Sugar Refinery in Brooklyn, a 19th century landmark perched on the banks of the East River, three engineers have transformed 3,000 square feet of the […]

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Biden administration launches cybersecurity executive order
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Biden administration launches cybersecurity executive order

US President Joe Biden, left, and Antony Blinken, US secretary of state, speak on the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, in the Cross Hall of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire deal, bringing at least a temporary halt to the war […]

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Who’d buy Ubisoft? Top potential suitors for beleaguered Assassin’s Creed maker
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Who’d buy Ubisoft? Top potential suitors for beleaguered Assassin’s Creed maker

With Ubisoft’s latest Assassin’s Creed game facing delays and independent board members reviewing strategic options, analysts are speculating on whether the gaming giant may finally put itself up for sale. The beleaguered French publisher last week postponed the launch of its upcoming “Assassin’s Creed Shadows” game by another month and appointed advisors to review its […]

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